Sue’s writing corner

Sue - 23 - fanfiction & fiction writer original works will be tagged as #my work // for recs see #writer support [sideblog, following and liking from ancient-rust]

[midnat-journey]

hello, tumblr.

Hi, I'm Sue and I finally caved and decided to open up a writing (side)blog. Listen, I am the worst procrastinator there is and posting my writing feels a lot like attending a party hosted by someone I met once during a class I barely paid attention to but whose invitations I'd declined too many times already to say 'no' to again - it's uncomfortable, and I don't know if I'll enjoy myself but I'm taking the leap.

Some of my writing will feature mature themes, such as alcohol and drug abuse, addiction, sexual themes. Such will be tagged, though. Other writing consists of random thoughts, worries and might feel more like a diary entry than serious fiction. Above all, I hope to entertain, since most writing I do on a day-to-day basis nowadays is academic or journalistic writing.

Anyway, I hope you all will enjoy my silly little posts. I expect I'll be posting a bunch of one-liners, one-shots and maybe one day I'll be able to link a whole masterlist of finished works. Until then, enjoy your time here! xx

find me here: ao3: midnat_journey | Archive of Our Own wattpad: Lux (@midnatjourney) - Wattpad tumblr main: night falls (tumblr.com)

Additional note: all works posted are mine unless tagged otherwise (e.g. #writer support) or reblogged. Translating, re-uploading or editing my works without my consent is forbidden!

[liljens-delights]

Hey tumblr!

My name is Sue, I’m 23 years old and this is going to be my fanfic writeblr. I’m not going to waste time on a huge introduction but my goal for this account is to talk about my current and future fanfiction projects and - obviously - to simp for my favourite idols, fictional characters, shows and books.

I had a fanfic published on wattpad before but decided to take it down and send it through revision, so this will be the first project for me to post about, as I’m currently editing the first six chapters to then move on to write and edit the final chapters!

Genres: Sci-Fi, New Weird, Romance, Detective/Crime, Fantasy, Alternative Universe

Currently working on: Seoul 2089 (Pairing: YunJae (DBSK/TVXQ); Genre: Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi, Romance, AU)

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Find me here:

Ancient-Rust (main blog)

Midnat-Journey (original fiction & writing advice)

Horizons-Creed (video game blog)

Wattpad // Ao3

[midnat-journey]

Btw I made an account specifically for fanfiction!! I‘m currently in the editing stages of another project I’ll be posting about on @liljens-delights.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Heyo! I love the tips of writing! It's so helpful😍 and so good! Do you have or know any tips for writing a prologue? Thank you very much!🥰

Heyo! So happy they help you out and I hope I can help you out even more :)

How to write a prologue

First advice: not every work of fiction has a prologue, so if you include one make sure it's memorable and enhances your story

Purpose of a prologue

to give background information the reader needs before starting the story

to explain the conflict the story starts with

to set the tone of your story

to introduce some of the characters

to foreshadow

Different kinds of prologue

Full-on action - especially if your story starts slow, you will still want to keep the reader's interest, so if you have a prologue that is full of action and drama, but then doesn't tell the reader how this scenario came to be and what happens next, then they will want to read the story to find out what's going on

The introduction - this kind of prologue establishes the point of view of the story and even introduces some of the characters and their backgrounds. This helps the reader be more connected to the characters when the story begins. But be careful not to give away too much!

Spoiler Alert - same like the first one, you want your reader to be hooked and be excited about your story, and to achieve that you can give them something that the main character doesn't even know yet or something that will be a very important fact in the future

This is just a short overview, but I hope it helps you with your writing!

- Jana

[causenessus]

Rest Days. | Jacob Frye

jacob frye x reader

she/her pronouns

song recc: i exist i exist i exist by flatsound

word count: 945 words

mainly wrote for me and definitely not edited but thought it was a sweet enough idea to post :)

Keep reading

[animentality]

[heywriters]

same goes for writers. every main and side character being a badass, beautiful, brainy hero/villain is so tiring. learn how to write a variety of folk. it will make your worlds feel lived in and every character much more authentic.

[prompts-in-a-barrel]

“When did your abilities first manifest?”

“I was low on money one year, so I decided to hand-make my nieces’ Christmas presents. I sewed them cute little rag dolls and other stuffed animals as a set.”

“Uh-huh. And when did it become apparent you weren’t making ordinary toys?”

“One of the dolls got up and handed me a pen I thought I lost.”

[midnat-journey]

“Then, I wanted to sleep. For a month, maybe two. I would dream of a different life. A house, a warm breakfast; the newspaper would tell only of good things. I would watch the sun rise and I would watch it set. No one would see me, no one would know me. And after that, I would wake up to a new year. I would be well rested for the world, the people in it and myself.”

[happyheidi]

(via)

[sosuperawesome]

David Joseph on Instagram

[tastytoecheese]

First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

[2soulscollide]

my favorite free tools for writers

hello, hello! hope you're doing well.

today i am bringing you another list with my top 3 favorite (free!) tools that I find helpful for each phase of writing a novel.

brainstorming phase

Fantasy Names Generator - not only for fantasy (you can also generate real names). this website is just... amazing! it helps you come up with names for characters, places and locations, descriptions, generate traits, outfits (yes, outfits!!), and probably something else you could ever think of.

The Story's Hack - this one is so cool! you can generate names for everything, create your own generator, and practice writing through writing exercises! plus, you can save your generated names to see later, and you earn coins for each idea generated (you can later buy themes - dark, snow, forest, etc)

RanGen - my last favorite generator on this list is RanGen! you can generate plots, appearances, archetypes, love interests, cities, worlds, items, and more.

developing the idea phase

Bryn Donovan - in this blog you can find master lists under the tag "master lists for writers". it is so helpful when you first start developing the characters and need to find the right words to describe them and to find some quirks and flaws!

Writers Write (350 character traits) - again, this is so helpful!

Story Planner - ah, the number of times I've talked about this website... please, PLEASE take a look at it, you won't regret it. this website has literally everything you need to fully develop your idea with outlines for you to fill in step by step.

writing phase

Colleen Houck (80+ barriers to love) - need more romace conflict? there you go!

Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language - so, you know how your character's feeling, but don't know how he'd physically act? check out this list!

Describing Words - honestly, this is a lifesaver. don't you struggle to find the right word to describe something? well, with this website all you have to do is to type the object you're trying to describe and see which description fits better to you!

revising phase

Language Tool for Google Docs - i know we all have heard about google docs before, but the truth is, it's almost impossible to find free softwares to check grammar and spelling. so, google docs is useful, because it automatically revises it for us, and it's completely free. plus, you can add adds-on, such as "language tool".

Unfortunately, there's only one (free) tool that I actually enjoy for the revising phase. if you know some others, please let me know so that I can try them out and feature in this list.

exporting phase

Google Docs - i find google docs very easy to format and export to .epub, so i'd recommend using it as a free tool.

Reedsy - this is also a free tool available online. all you have to do is to write down each chapter (copy and paste) or import your word document. it will format the document to your liking and export it to pdf, epub and mobi.

that's everything for now! i hope this post was somehow helpful or inspiring!

if you want to see more master lists full of resources, check these:

WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}

BEST accounts to follow as a writer

BEST SITES & SOFTWARES TO WRITE FICTION

DIALOGUE IDEAS TO GET RID OF THAT WRITING BLOCK (masterpost)

Useful Resources & Tips for Writers

also, if you are a notion lover just like me, check the free template I just released with everything you need to develop and write your novel!

thank you so much for reading! hope to see you around, and have a nice day <3

[brittany-diamond]

I’ve been watching and reading craft advice for a long time now, and in my experience the writing community does not talk about clarity enough. Prose seems to take a back seat in general, but it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that one of my favorite writing Youtubers even talked about clarity.

Clear prose is everything. It’s step one. If you’re not writing sentences people can understand, that then becomes paragraphs people understand etc, you’re not getting anywhere. In fact, you’re failing in one of the few ways a writer can actually fail. But that’s okay, because conveying ideas clearly is a challenge we take for granted. We like to hop right to the complicated stuff and want to skim past the fundamentals as fast as we can. Guitarists have a similar problem–proper strumming technique and chord changes are sped through to get to the shredding part asap.

It’s not sexy, but if I was gonna tell absolute beginner writers anything it would be: forget that big, complicated world you’ve been daydreaming about, forget that huge cast of deeply developed characters you’ve been building, forget all the long, glorious, complicated, poetical sentences you’ve aspired to write. Forget all of that for now. 

Write something that makes sense on the sentence level. Work on communicating images and actions clearly. Work on basic cause and effect. Character A moves, Character B reacts to the movement. (Tons of new writers reverse the causal order more often than you think.) Clear motions, clear reactions, clear motivations, clear emotions, clear development.

The first thing Aaron Sorkin asks someone who’s just read his last work-in-progress is: “Did you understand it?” Not because he fancies himself such an intelligent/complicated/high-minded author, that’s not what he’s asking. He asks if they understood the story as he intended to tell it, if it made basic sense, and if any part confused them. Even after everything he’s written, he still prioritizes clarity.    

[midnat-journey]

To add to this: As a rhetorics student, clarity (perspicuitas) is the most important part of any work that is supposed to be likeable in the eyes of your audience. Your audience has to understand.

In prose, in speeches, in letters and so on you want to get your point across in a way that your audience understands easily because that is how you keep their attention. More often than not that also means to reduce the amount of fancy or complicated words you use. This does not make your work less “clever”, in fact I would argue that it makes it more clever.

[joytri]

‘I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know.’

J. R. R. Tolkien

[midnat-journey]

writing and especially sharing your writing can be such a difficult experience. you pour your heart and soul into this work and you’re supposed to show it to someone else? to expose parts of you you barely understand yourself? to look at someone and say I’m human, here’s my life, my love, my pain.

[midnat-journey]

So… in the tags of this previous post I was talking about how gut wrenching it can be to be criticised (in reference to my creative writing university class) and I just wanted to say that now, after a few weeks in that class, I have realised that criticism is not to be feared. Of course, I’m still learning this - but it becomes easier with each passing week.

On Monday it’ll finally be my turn to read my work out to the class and I’m not as scared as I used to be.

In fact, I think I’m quite looking forward to it.

[prompts-in-a-barrel]

“I see you got my letters.”

“Most of them.”

“I never got any from you.”

[thatsbelievable]

[midnat-journey]

22

at nineteen the world

it belonged to me.

sugary sweet, spicy treat your lips

dipped in poison bitterly

twenty ruined me and

twenty-one passed by quickly

but now eagerly I wait to see

twenty-three.